Series III: Socialist Workers Party, 1944-1983
Scope and Content Note
This series documents Weiss's activities within the Socialist Workers Party; the documents, correspondence, minutes, flyers, and other ephemera chronicle the Cochranite split, discussions and debates concerning Pabloism (Michael Pablo, Michael Raptis: head of the International Secretariat), the Party's response to the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party and its effect on the Communist Party USA, and consideration of the 1956 uprisings in Poland and Hungary. SWP policy and activity is also chronicled concerning the "regroupment campaign" of 1956-1958, as well as the Party's relationship to the Young Socialist League (YSL), the Young People's Socialist League (YPSL), the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) and the Workers World Party. In addition, there is material and correspondence concerning the opposition group the Revolutionary Tendency (TR) and the expulsion from the SWP of Lynne Harper, Laurence Ireland, Shane Mage, James Robertson, and Geoffrey White in 1963.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Martin (Cannon): Comments on the Selection of the National Committee, 1944
Box: 3, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Felix Morrow: Where I Stand, 1945
Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Myra Tanner Weiss v Los Angeles Broadcasting, Inc..., 1946
Box: 3, Folder: 2a (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Socialist Workers Party Internal Documents, 1949
Box: 3, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Natalia Trotsky: letter re break with Fourth International and Socialist Workers Party, 1951
Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Johnson-Forest: What We Are Leaving Behind, 1951
Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
M. Pablo: The Building of the Revolutionary Party, 1952
Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, 1953
Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, 1954
Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Club Executive Minutes, 1954
Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, 1955
Box: 3, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Peng: Pabloism Reviewed, 1955
Box: 3, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft Resolutions: The Soviet Union Today [sect iv]; The Third Chinese Revolution and Its Aftermath [sect ii]; The Rise of the Colonial Bourgeoise [sect iii]; includes correspondence, 1955
Box: 3, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Digest of 1949 U.S. White Paper on China, 1955
Box: 3, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Club Executive Minutes, 1955
Box: 3, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, 1956
Box: 3, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communications to National Committee Members, 1956
Box: 3, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
On the CPUSA, 1956
Box: 3, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Joseph Hansen: Report on the Trotsky School, 1956
Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft Resolution: The World Today, 1956
Box: 3, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft Resolution on Stalinism, 1956
Box: 3, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft Resolution: The Crisis of Stalinism, 1956
Box: 3, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft Resolution on Middle East, 1956
Box: 3, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
re slogan, Federal Troops to Mississippi, 1956
Box: 3, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, 1957
Box: 3, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tentative Outline for Political Report to Convention, 1957
Box: 3, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Young Socialist League (YSL): correspondence and reports, 1957
Box: 3, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft Resolution: Towards a Revolutionary Party in Britain; Suez and its Aftermath, 1957
Box: 3, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Club Executive Minutes, 1957
Box: 3, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, 1958
Box: 4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, 1959
Box: 4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Club Executive Minutes, 1959
Box: 4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Revised Draft Political Resolution - regroupment, 1959
Box: 4, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, 1960
Box: 4, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
James Cannon: letter with 1945 "On The Party Press", 1960
Box: 4, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Raj Narain Arya: statements, 1960
Box: 4, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Political Committee Minutes, 1960
Box: 4, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft: Tasks and Perspectives Resolution; Tasks and Perspectives Resolution, 1960
Box: 4, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Murry Weiss: Memorandum on the Principled Groundwork of Our Tactics and Slogans in the Struggle Against Imperialist War, 1960
Box: 4, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Concerning Cuba, 1960
Box: 4, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, 1961
Box: 4, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Political Committee Minutes, 1961
Box: 4, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pre Convention and 19th National Convention Minutes, 1961
Box: 4, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
National Executive Committee Minutes (with attached correspondence), 1961
Box: 4, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Monroe Defense Movement, 1961
Box: 4, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, 1962
Box: 4, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Political Committee Draft: Problems of the Fourth International And the Next Steps, 1962
Box: 4, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft Resolution: The Chinese Revolution: Its Character and Development, 1962
Box: 4, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Political Committee Minutes, 1962
Box: 4, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, 1963
Box: 4, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Political Committee Minutes, 1963
Box: 4, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
National Committee Plenum, 1963
Box: 4, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Myra Tanner Weiss: Plenum Speech, 1963
Box: 4, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft of Convention Resolution: Freedom Now, 1963
Box: 5, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft Resolution on the Organizational Character of the SWP, 1963
Box: 5, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Suspension of Robertson-Mage-White Minority Tendency: statements and correspondence, 1963
Box: 5, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Statement of the Reorganized Minority Tendency: The Decline of American Imperialism and the Tasks of the SWP, 1963
Box: 5, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft Resolution: Preparing for the Next Wave of Radicalism in the United States, 1963
Box: 5, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft Resolution: The SWP Position on China (May); The SWP Position on China with Wohlforth amendment (June), 1963
Box: 5, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft Resolution: The Sino-Soviet Dispute; Marxist Policy in the Sino-Soviet Dispute, 1963
Box: 5, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, 1964
Box: 5, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Political Committee Minutes, 1964
Box: 5, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
National Executive Committee Minutes, 1964
Box: 5, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
21st National Convention Minutes, 1965
Box: 5, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, 1966
Box: 5, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, circa 1967
Box: 5, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hildegarde Swabeck: resignation letter, circa 1967
Box: 5, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, 1982-1983
Box: 5, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Internal Documents, undated
Box: 5, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
